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Moneypuck
by Alanah McGinley on 04/26/08 at 02:40 PM ET
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Iain MacIntyre of the Vancouver Sun sat down with Mike Gillis yesterday:
As Gillis talked Friday about management models, it wasn’t Sam Pollack or Bill Torrey or Glen Sather or Brian Burke he cited, but Sandy Alderson.
Alderson is the former U.S. marine who had no baseball management experience when he was named general manager of the Oakland Athletics in 1982. His hiring was ridiculed by many in the baseball establishment, but Alderson revolutionized the game.
He relied on data and detached analysis rather than experience and emotion to choose players and build his team, which became the best in baseball. His successor Billy Beane, a disciple, introduced the concept of “Moneyball,”
An interesting interview, which also gives more insight into how his hiring came about. You can read it all here, or listen to the audio of their conversation here [mp3].
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